On Thursday 12 December 2024 03:18:49 am Bret Busby wrote: > > The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 > > 6-bit characters, not bytes, > > Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that? No, that was an 8-bit code...
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